Jaguar Land Rover Books its Biggest-Ever Annual Loss. Sales Collapse in China by Don Quijones • May 21, 2019 • 22 Comments China deliveries in its fiscal year: -34%. And not getting better: in April, -45%.
Carmageddon Sinks Tesla’s Bonds by Wolf Richter • May 20, 2019 • 96 Comments Tesla is steeped in chaos — and chaos is absolutely the opposite what a complex manufacturing, distribution, and retail operation needs.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT by Wolf Richter • May 19, 2019 • 50 Comments What the Subprime Auto-Loan Fiasco Means.
Subprime Bites: Auto-Loan Delinquencies Spike to Q3 2009 Level, Despite Strongest Labor Market in Years by Wolf Richter • May 15, 2019 • 80 Comments But what will happen to banks and automakers when the cycle turns?
Tesla Discloses Record Pollution Credits for Q1: Without Them, it Would Have Lost $918 Million and Bled $1.14 Billion in Cash by Wolf Richter • Apr 29, 2019 • 71 Comments The surprise in the SEC 10-Q filing when no one was supposed to pay attention.
Tesla Reports Another Doozie by Wolf Richter • Apr 24, 2019 • 76 Comments The ruse that helped shares jump 20%.
US Auto Imports from Mexico Surge 10% in Q1 to New Record, Despite Dropping Sales in the US by Don Quijones • Apr 24, 2019 • 19 Comments 16% of the 4 million new vehicles sold in the US in Q1 were assembled in Mexico.
China EV Manufacturing Bubble Faces Getting Bludgeoned by Wolf Richter • Apr 15, 2019 • 52 Comments There are now 486 EV manufacturers in China, triple from two years ago. Most will disappear.
Carmageddon at Tesla-Panasonic Gigafactory in Nevada and Shanghai by Wolf Richter • Apr 11, 2019 • 118 Comments Expansion & investment plans frozen, after deliveries of Teslas plunged in Q1
This is How Stocks Get Hit When BBB-Rated Companies Try to Dodge a Downgrade to “Junk” by Wolf Richter • Apr 9, 2019 • 51 Comments There are now many of them. Shoring up the balance sheet is the opposite of “shareholder friendly.” It’s “creditor friendly.”